Fragment with Inscription (before 1968): Art, History and Details

Fragment with Inscription (before 1968) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This textile preserves most of 5 rows of aligned roundels; the top row and bottom two rows are very fragmentary. Each roundel contains a tree of life flanked by confronting peacocks with an inscription on its wings. Below the peacocks are recumbent, addorsed, and regardant quadrupeds also flanking the tree. Interspaces are filled with four-directional medallions of stylized plant forms.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment with Inscription
• Date: before 1968
• Culture: Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
• Type: Textile
• Technique: Silk: compound tabby
• Dimensions: Overall: 54 x 53 cm (21 1/4 x 20 7/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Islamic
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1968.235

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Annual Report for 1968.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 6, 1969, pp. 209–248.

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